Wow, this is very exciting, thank you for the announcement! This obviously provokes curiosity, so a few questions: - What are some features unique to this runner, i.e. features that might make somebody who isn't using IBM Streams to consider using it just because of how good is the Beam experience on it? I.e. things like - ease of use / "no ops", performance, debugging/monitoring features, autotuning features, etc. - Is this runner a good fit for running large batch jobs, or is it focused just on streaming use cases? - Have you tried validating the runner against the NexMark benchmark suite, recently added to Beam? That's an excellent way to validate both correctness and performance. - From a brief reading of the tutorial I didn't quite understand: is it possible to play with this runner on a local machine? - For the support forum: why not StackOverflow? :) Or, do you plan to monitor StackOverflow as well?
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:06 PM Daniel Debrunner <[email protected]> wrote: > We are excited to announce the release of IBM Streams Runner for Apache > Beam. > > Beam users can submit Beam 2.0 Java applications to IBM Cloud > Streaming Analytics Service (free trials are available, > https://console.bluemix.net/catalog/services/streaming-analytics ). > > Besides the Beam API, this runner also exposes several IBM > Cloud/Streams specific features. > > Find more details here: > > https://ibmstreams.github.io/streamsx.documentation/docs/beamrunner/beamrunner-1-intro > > If you have any questions or requirements regarding Streams Runner, > feel free to post them on StreamsDev forum: > https://developer.ibm.com/answers/smartspace/streamsdev/index.html. > > Best, > IBM Streams Team >
